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                                    Who was the founder of xAI?
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                                    </span></div></div></div> <div class="seo-text-answer" data-v-0eba195e="">The founder of xAI is Elon Musk. He officially unveiled xAI and its founding members in July 2023. xAI was incorporated in March 2023 in Nevada, with Musk serving as its sole director and his personal money manager Jared Birchall listed as secretary. 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According to his new company’s website, xAI’s goal is “to understand the true nature of the universe.” It will be Musk’s sixth company in addition to Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Neuralink and The Boring Company. xAI was incorporated in March in Nevada. A state filing listed Musk as its sole director and his personal money manager Jared Birchall, as secretary. Today Musk announced xAI’s first 12 employees, including himself. The team consists primarily of former researchers at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and the University of Toronto, where “A.I. godfather” Geoffrey Hinton teaches. The team is advised by Dan Hendrycks, a machine learning researcher who serves as the director of the Center for A.I. Safety, a nonprofit advocating for proper regulation of A.I. xAI is actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join its staff based in the Bay Area. 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